Many teachers give up five minutes of their third hour class period to add to students’ already-short lunchtime, bringing the lunch period to a whopping total of 25 minutes. However, it has recently been rumored that 20-minute lunches will become required in all classes.
This standard is not realistic...

Elementary school children and younger are constantly being told to think about a career. This can be a stressful thing for a kid, not knowing what they want to do, yet being pressured to decide on something even though they aren’t ready for it. We need to stop demanding definitive answers from stud...

Small YouTubers were outraged last week when YouTube released new guidelines to their Partner Program.
The YouTube Partner Program allows YouTube channels to make money through Google AdSense. Once a channel becomes part of the program, YouTube places ads before or during that channel’s videos....

This year’s golden globes had some amazing results, but the feel for the event was shadowed by a large political premise. That being the hypocrisy of the entertainment industry.
For the whole night, women and men alike wore black to the red carpet to protest sexual abuse in the entertainment industry....

To continue his vlogs during his time in Tokyo, YouTuber Logan Paul uploaded a video of a suicide victim in Aokigahara, Japan’s ‘suicide forest.’
Paul had the audacity to walk onto hallowed land and make a mockery of a dead body that he found hanging there.
He has received a large amount...

Imagine something similar to the school’s barracuda web filter popping up when you open Netflix because your parents only paid for news websites.
Though nothing like that could happen at this point in time, similar situations could potentially occur if net neutrality was repealed.
In recent weeks,...

President Donald J. Trump addressed a shocked nation during his first stop in Tokyo after a gunman killed 25 people and injured 20 others at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Nov. 6.
Trump claimed at the end of his speech that “all of America is praying to God to help the wounded...

Since 1854, Louis Vuitton has been creating bags, shoes and wallets that are created from crocodiles. Along with other companies such as Prada and Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton uses crocodile farms in Vietnam to get the skin, as illustrated by a video produced by PETA.
In these farms, crocodiles are crammed into enclo...

Spirit days are supposed to be a time of light-hearted fun. They are supposed to gauge the school spirit that each class shares. However, they should not be steeped in controversy, like this year’s spirit days.
There were two spirit days that were changed as a result of controversy. Through the...

Despite former first lady Michelle Obama’s valiant efforts to combat obesity by reforming school lunch guidelines, teens are still not fueling their bodies properly. According to the CDC, from 2011-2014, 20.5 percent of 12 to 19-year-olds in the United States fell into the obese category.
Even yo...

Being a vegetarian for around six years allows for time to understand that when you tell people you're a vegetarian, you're going to get some comments.
While those comments may just be curiosity, there's always going to be that one person who says something rude.
The same is true with veganism....

Throughout the year, we have multiple breaks including breaks for Thanksgiving, winter and summer.
One other break that we have coming up is spring break.
This year, spring break will begin on March 18 and end on March 26.
Spring break is placed very well.
Spring break can be used as a little...